Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia, a republic of the former Yugoslavia, was torn apart by ethnic violence in the early 1990s. A diplomatic breakthrough helped end that war in 1995.

For the first time since Bosnia gained its independence from the former Yugoslavia, the country is sending a team to the World Cup finals. And that’s got the biggest Bosnian community in the US pretty excited.

For Bosnian refugees who have found a home in the US, the debate over Syria is very familiar. So are the stories of refugees fleeing their homes. We hear from Bosnian refugees living in California about the crisis in Syria.

Srebrenica was the site of one of the worst atrocities of the lengthy Serbian civil war. Thousands of Bosniaks, Bosnian Muslims, were killed there. In the aftermath of the massacre, the town is largely Serbian. But a quirk of policy has allowed Bosniaks who moved out of town to continue to vote in the city’s elections. But that’s poised to change.

Race could give town first Serb mayor since Ratko Mladic’s forces killed 8,000 in Bosnian town. Serb candidate says it’s time to move, but survivors say moving on, is moving backward.